More Backlink Obsession

• Posted by B Jones on September 10th, 2005 - Comment on this Post »

After writing the last little article about Backlinks, I decided to do a little comparison to see the difference between backlink searches in Google and Yahoo . (note: I decided not to compare MSN; they say that this site has 745 BLs, but only ends up being 35…Maybe when their API comes out, it will be more accurate)

Results

• Google [link:www.seologs.com]
  Results from 5 unique domains (mostly from seologs.com - 24 results)
• Google Alternative BL Tool (uses a google xml query)
  Results from 20 unique domains (I would like to do some comparisons over time with this tool. I still cant determine why this information is different that the regular [link:] command in Google)
• Yahoo[linkdomain:www.seologs.com]
  Results from 41 unique domains (1,470 results)
• Backlink Analyzer Tool (uses Y! api)
  Results from 53 unique domains

This reinforces what I discussed last time about the Backlink Analyzer tool being the best for showing most backlinks, however, I found that there were actually a few that showed up on the Google Alternative BL Tool that weren’t in the Backlink Analyzer Tool results.

I think a tool that compares BL results across all SEs would be a good thing. Maybe when I get some time.

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